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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of dipterous insects, typical of the family Sarcophagidæ; the flesh-flies.
  • In Owen's classification (1839), a division of marsupials, having teeth of three kinds and no cæcum, as the dasyures, and including a section of the carnivorous marsupials.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.

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  • noun flesh flies

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